Knicks Morning News (Tuesday, Aug 27 2013)

Play nice, guys.
That essentially was the directive given to owners James Dolan of the Knicks and Mikhail Prokhorov of the Nets this past season during a meeting orchestrated by NBA Commissioner David Stern, who wanted to snuff any lingering tension between the two and prevent a full-blown feud, multiple…

6 comments on “Knicks Morning News (Tuesday, Aug 27 2013)”

T Mac..wow. Talk about injuries undermining what could have been a easy HOF career. He probably still has the numbers, he just doesn’t have any real playoff success. It sucks because he was that rare star player who didn’t appear to have a weakness in his game. Some things he did better than others, but no real weakness. His best year he put up what, 32 ppg 6 rpg 5 apg 1 spg 1 bpg on 45% FG and 36 3FG?? Crazy. I really wish Pop would have used him more in the finals. He was a definite X Factor. Guess he wasn’t as ready as he thought he was.

Whenever I think about tMac, Penny Hardaway comes to mind. Looking at their stats, pretty comparable players, in some respects.
Penny was a more efficient scorer, McGrady more volume scoring, and a better 3 pt shooter, but not by a lot.
Penny much better from the stripe.
Shows league bias toward volume scores tho. McGrady went to all star game almost twice a often, was considered a top 10 MVP vote getter for several years.

Frank O.: Whenever I think about tMac, Penny Hardaway comes to mind. Looking at their stats, pretty comparable players, in some respects.

Penny! Wow again! Injuries. A friend and I were debating just how good he could have been if he hadn’t gotten hurt. His healthy years he was always around 50% from the floor and 31% from 3 AND he could run an offense. Dude was crazy gifted. If he was healthy in NY he woulda made Marbury look real good.

Yeah, it mkes you think about all of the potential HOF players that were derailed in their primes by injury, tragedy, etc. Bill Simmons had a section in his “The Book of Basketball” dedicated to some of these players. My own list includes:

Z-man:
Yeah, it mkes you think about all of the potential HOF players that were derailed in their primes by injury, tragedy, etc. Bill Simmons had a section in his “The Book of Basketball” dedicated to some of these players. My own list includes: